loving - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Inherited from Middle English lovynge, lovyng (“love”), from Old English lufung; equivalent to love + -ing.
loving (usually uncountable, plural lovings)
- The action of the verb to love.
loving (comparative lovinger or more loving, superlative lovingest or most loving)
- Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
his loving wife
- adoring
- affectionate
- See also Thesaurus:affectionate
expressing a large amount of love
- Arabic: مُحِبّ (ar) (muḥibb), وَدُود (wadūd)
- Armenian: սիրող (hy) (siroġ)
- Catalan: amorós (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: milující
- Esperanto: ama (eo), amema, amplena
- Finnish: rakastava (fi)
- French: aimant (fr)
- Galician: amoroso
- Georgian: მოსიყვარულე (mosiq̇varule)
- German: liebend (de)
- Greek: στοργικός (el) (storgikós)
- Hungarian: szerető (hu)
- Irish: grámhar, cionmhar, ceanúil, armacach, muirneach
- Italian: amoroso (it), amorevole (it)
- Japanese: 愛する (ja) (あいする, ai-suru)
- Maori: mateoha
- Polish: kochający m, kochająca f, kochające n
- Portuguese: amoroso (pt)
- Russian: лю́бящий (ru) (ljúbjaščij), любвеобильный (ru) (ljubveobilʹnyj)
- Spanish: cariñoso (es), amoroso (es), querendón (es)
- Swedish: kärleksfull (sv), öm (sv)
- Ukrainian: люблячий (ljubljačyj)
loving
- present participle and gerund of love
(terms derived from all parts of speech):
loving
- Alternative form of lovynge (“praise”)